Formula to remove a character first and last of the text in a cell

What is the formula to remove a character first and last of the text in a cell?
Example" *123456789*, i want to remove the * in the beginning and end
I tried this formula but i can only remove the first =MID(CELL, FIND("*", CELL) + 1, LEN(CELL))

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Thanks.

You could try this:

=--SUBSTITUTE(A1,"*","")

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